On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>> How much money (US Dollars) would you need?
>>>
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>> Command Prompt could jump on that as well. We could help sponsor a bit.
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> Maybe we could start a funding project for it?
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> USD convert to lots of roubles I assume, so it'd be good like that. Perhaps
What do you mean ? It's common misleading that life in Russia is cheap.
>From my experience living in California is cheaper than here in Moscow.
10 years ago it was profitable to work in US some time, but not now :(
> someone (not me - too busy) on the PostgreSQL Foundation could organise
> contacting some companies to see if we can get a little out of several :)
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> ie. Command Prompt, Fujitsu, Pervasive, EnterpriseDB, etc.?
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> Oleg & Teodor: how about letting us know what funding target we'd need?
We'd love to start tomorrow working on GiST, but we have some current
obligations we need to sort out.
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> Chris
>
Regards,
Oleg
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